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TRUCK FOR STRAW STAGKERS.

No. 279,184. Patented June 12,1888.

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ALFRED B. REEVES, OF COLUMBUS, INDIANA, ASSIG-NOR TO REEVES & 00.

AND JOSEPH I. IRVIN, OF SAME PLACE.

TRUCK FOR STRAW-STACKERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,184, dated June 12, 1883.

Application filed January 1'2, 1883.

To all whom it 11mg concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED B. REEVES, it

citizen of the United States, residing in Columbus, in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana, have invented certain new'and useful Improvements in Trucks for Straw-Stacking Machines, of which the following is a specification, having reference to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improved truck particularly adapted to be used with a strawstaeking machine of that kind which consists, essentially, of straw-carrier mounted on a turn-table.

The object of the invention is .to provide a truck which is adapted to sustain a strawstacking machine in an ele *ated position during its operation in stacking straw, to allow the folding of the machine compactly on the truck without separation therefrom, and which is also adapted to be easily separated from the stacking-machine after the same has been elevated in position for operation.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Figure 1 is a perspective, showing the stacker in position for work, the truck forming the principal support therefor. Fig. 2 shows the truck detached and the stacker otherwise supported. Fig. 3 shows the truck and stacker folded thereon for transportation. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views, showing the means for connecting the folding uprights with the stacker-frame.

The same letters refer to the same or' corresponding parts in the several figures.

A represents the turntable on which the straw-carrier is mounted; I), the frame on which the turn-table rests.

c is a cross-bar connecting the' derrickpoles (Z d, from which the discharging end of the straw-carrier is suspended.

c is the truck-bed.

f ghi are uprights, having their lower ends pivoted to the truck-bed and their upper ends pivoted to the frame b. Uprights f and g are braced transversely by means of brace-rods j. A brace-rod, k, which is permanently secured to the wagon-bed at one end and detachably secured to the cross-bar c at the other end, serves to brace the whole longitudinally.

-k is now connected with cross-bar e.

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1 is the wagon-tongue, which is adjustably secured between the hounds m n in the usual. manner, so that it may be lengthened or shortened.

The upper end of each of uprights f, g, 71, and i is slotted to receive a short bolt, 0, which projects from the inner side of frame b, .as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. A bolt, 1), may be passed through the upright and across the slot just above bolt 0.

The operation of my device is as follows: Vhen moving from place to place the frame I) rests on the wagon-bed, the uprights folding down on the outside thereof, as shown in Fig.

3, and the strawcarrier chute is folded together,

being at the same time drawn toward the thrasher and the end of the tongue connected with the rear end of the thrasher. Brace-rod Short bars 8 s, attached to the frame I), the same .time enter sockets provided for them on the under side of bar 0, and serve to hold the derrick closely against the frame.

'When the stacker is to remain for sometime in one position, it is desirable that the wagon be removed, so that the straw, which always falls to some extent from the hopper of the straw-carrier chute, maybe easily removed. In

such case that end of the frame b which is farthest from the derrick supported by suitable legs attached thereto, and the bolt 19 in each of the uprights f g h '1' having been re. moved, the wagon-tongue is disconnected from the thrasher, the wagon is backed, and the uprights slip off from the bolts 0, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, the front end of the frame I) being supported by the derrick in the manner fully described in another application which I have made for a patent for improvement in stackers. I claim as my invention 1. The combinatiomwith the base-frame, the turning strawrarrier, and a carrying-truck, of uprights pivoted to said truck and detaehably IOO connected with the base-frame, and adapted, ing their lower ends pivoted to the truck-bed 10 also, to fold down upon the truck while so conand their upper ends slotted as shown and denected, and means for bracing said uprights inscribed, and means for bracing said uprights in a vertical position, all substantially as shown a vertical position, substantially as shown and 5 and described. described, for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with a truck-bed and a ALFRED B. REEVES. frame forming the base of a turning straw-car- \Vitnesses: rier, and provided at each corner with a pro- WV. W. CURRY, ject-ing'bolt, o, of uprightsf, g, h, and i, hav MILTON M. REEVES. 

